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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry Newman
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John Henry Newman
Age: 89 †
Born: 1801
Born: February 21
Died: 1890
Died: August 11
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm next, that they have no power whatever of resistance it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
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True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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